Homegrown: Your Backyard Garden Podcast

If you're growing tomatoes in your backyard vegetable garden, you'll probably have green tomatoes left on your plants at the end of the season. If you're wondering what you can do with those green tomatoes, you'll appreciate these suggestions to ripen your green tomatoes before the first fall frost, and to get the most out of your harvest.

Can you make your green tomatoes turn red? Can you save your tomato plants from frost? What can you do with green tomatoes? You'll find out in this episode.

Click here for your free Tomato Tips cheatsheet
https://bit.ly/tomatocheatsheet so you can grow incredible tomatoes!

Transcript/Related Post:
What to Do With Green Tomatoes in the Fall - https://bit.ly/usegreentomatoes

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Should you invest in a survival seed kit? These pre-packaged seeds are meant to be stored away long-term until you have to start growing your own food after an emergency or world-wide crisis.

Here's why a survival seed kit might be a good option, but perhaps not your best option. I'll tell you why, and what to do instead - even if you already have a package of survival seeds stashed away for an uncertain future, which really isn't a bad idea!

Transcript/Related Post: Survival Seeds -  https://bit.ly/DoYouNeedSurvivalSeeds
Check out the Grow Guides on the website for various vegetables and fruit.
Episode #10 discusses hybrid vs heirloom tomato varieties
Blog Post -  Hybrid vs Heirloom Tomato Seeds
Blog Post - Why You Should Plant Heirloom Seeds

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In this episode, we explore nine summer vegetables that thrive in hot weather. Learn essential tips and suggestions for growing these heat-loving vegetables in your backyard garden. Plus, discover the secrets to maximizing your harvest from your garden this summer. Let's dig in!


Transcript/Related Post:
9 Warm-Weather Vegetables for your Summer Garden
https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2023/05/9-warm-weather-vegetables-to-grow.html


Related Links:
How to Transplant Tomato Plants
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers
Grow Your Own Sweet Potato Slips


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Discover the benefits of composting for your vegetable garden, and the advantages of composting at home. Composting your yard waste and kitchen garbage is the best way to improve your garden. Here are four reasons you should be composting, in honor of Learn About Composting Day.

RELATED POST: 4 Reasons You Should Be Composting
https://bit.ly/compostreasons

The natural antidepressant in dirt is mycobacterium vaccae. 

Purchase my ebook The Down-to-Earth Guide to Composting on sale until June 3rd, 2024. Use coupon code COMPOSTDAY to save 50%.
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Nine out of 10 gardeners grow tomatoes, making it the most popular garden vegetable to grow. And there are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes to choose from. Let’s explore the differences - heirlooms vs hybrid varieties, determinate vs indeterminate growing habits, and the six different sizes and shapes of tomatoes.

Which one is best for you? It depends on what you want to do with your tomatoes - whether you want to add them to a salad, top a burger or sandwich, make sauce, or enjoy a snack fresh from the garden. Let’s dig in!


Click here for your free Tomato Tips cheatsheet (https://oakhillhomestead.myflodesk.com/i26cg0r2j2) so you can grow incredible tomatoes!


Transcript/Related post:
The 6 Kinds of Tomatoes - https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2024/03/determinate-and-indeterminate-tomatoes.html

Hybrid vs Heirloom -  https://www.oakhillhomestead.com/2024/04/hybrid-vs-heirloom-tomatoes.html

Related Links:
How to start seeds
Trellis tomatoes
Grow a new tomato plant from a sucker
Why you should grow heirloom seeds 

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Discover seven easy-to-grow cool-season plants ideal for your backyard garden. From vibrant greens to flavorful root vegetables plus a delicious fruit, you'll learn about these easy-to-grow spring vegetables and why it's important that you know how to grow your own food.

Transcript/related post:
7 Easy Cool-Season Vegetables to Plant

• Grow Guides 
• Sweet and Sour Beet recipe
• Episode 3: How to Plant Garlic

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Potatoes are a great way to make ends meet, and you can save even more money by growing them in containers. There are a few things you need to pay attention to though, and we'll discuss them in this episode. Let's dig in!

Transcript/related post:
How to Plant Potatoes in Containers

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What will you grow in your backyard vegetable garden? Choosing what to grow in a garden can be overwhelming with all the choices that are available. These tips will walk you through the steps of how to choose the vegetables and fruits to plant in your backyard garden.

You'll find suggested vegetable varieties for small gardens in Episodes #3 and #5.

Transcript/related post:
7 Tips to Choose What to Plant in a Vegetable Garden

Related Links:

• Dirty Dozen list
• Find your growing season information here
• How to Grow Vegetables and Herbs in a Shady Garden ebook
• Mary's Heirloom Seeds

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Every inch of soil counts in a backyard garden, and raised garden beds can be a game-changer, an efficient solution with many benefits. From soil improvement to better use of your garden space, learn about the advantages of raised garden beds, and about some of the disadvantages too. Let’s dig in!

Transcript/related post:
The Advantages of Raised Garden Beds

Get your free set of printable plans and materials list to build your own raised garden bed.

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Here are my 8 secrets to growing a successful salad garden in a small space, a flowerbed or in plant pots and containers. You can grow a healthy salad almost anywhere, even if you're short on garden space and have little gardening experience.

Transcript (and free guide to choosing plants for a salad garden):
Grow a Salad Garden in a Small Space

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